xv, 320 pages : 24 cm

"The first part of the volume unravels the history of women's role in the development of archaeology, and is composed of studies of the interaction of women in particular countries. The second part explores the individual women's lives, focusing on issues such as the tension between their archaeological work and their socio-political situation, with particular reference to the suffragette and feminist movements. It also highlights the problems women have encountered in gaining access to the accepted institutions of the archaeological community." "This critical assessment of women in archaeology makes a major contribution to the history of archaeology. It reveals how selective the archaeological world has been in recognizing the contributions of those who have shaped its discipline, and how it has been particularly inclined to ignore the achievements of women archaeologists."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

Excavating women: towards an engendered history of archaeology / Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen -- Rescue and recovery: on historiographies of female archaeologists / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen -- Archaeology of French women and French women in archaeology / Anick Coudart -- Gender politics in Polish archaeology / Liliana Janik and Hanna Zawadzka -- Women archaeologists in retrospect: the Norwegian case / Liv Helga Dommasnes, Else Johansen Kleppe, Gro Mandt and Jenny-Rita Næss -- Spanish women in a changing world: strategies in the search for self-fulfillment through antiquities / Margarita Díaz-Andreu -- When the wall came down: East German women employed in archaeology before and after 1989 / Ruth Struwe -- Archaeology, gender and emancipation: the paradox of Hanna Rydh / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- Women in British archaeology: visible and invisible / Sara Champion -- Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady: the first women archaeologists in Crete / Marina Picazo -- The state of Denmark: Lis Jacobsen and other women in and around archaeology / Lise Bender Jørgensen -- Greek women in archaeology: an untold story / Marianna Nikolaidou and Dimitra Kokkinidou -- From pictures to stories: traces of female Ph. D. graduates from the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Tübingen, Germany / Sibylle Kästner, Viola Maier and Almut Schülke -- The impact of modern invasions and migrations on archaeological explanation: a biographical sketch of Marija Gimbutas / John Chapman

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